Just how did you get into the world of Civ?

A long and tortured trail. WAAAY back in Junior high/High shcool (late 70's-can't believe I survived) a good friend and I played all sorts of board war games (Avalon Hill and the like). We were always making up world empire/conquest games, using the board games to fight out the wars, and just making up the diplomacy/maps/etc. on paper and making our own rules as we went. After moving out to attend college, mom sold most of my board games (wish I had them now), but I still dabbled now and then. I would even make up world conquest games on paper like we used to do and play them by myself, making up the rules, adjusting economies, etc, (is that sad, or what?). Don't remember the circumstances, now, but had some money much later in life for a computer game (present from my wife, if I remember correctely. If only she had known
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) I had seen Civilization, Caesar (or whatever it was called) and similar on store shelves, but didn't know anything about them. Had played Sim City some and enjoyed it, but never totally got hooked. I read a review somewhere comparing the new Civilization game with the old one, basically saying the old one was better. Knowing what I know now, it must have been CTP or TOT compared with Civ II. Anyway, the game sounded like what I was looking for, so I took a deep breath and bought it. The rest (pun intended) is history...
 
I first came across Civ1 when my dad brought a computer home during Christmas break from work. I was in 7th grade. Anyway, I saw the icon on the desktop "civilization". I clicked on it and there I was. I had to figure it out by myself, but I was hooked within a couple of weeks. Before he took it back to work, I copied it onto about five 3.5" floppy discs and put it on my Mac LC at home. Then I got the PC and bought Civ2.
 
WOW this is interesting, I seem to have a totally logical story, but it is differnent from any of the previous.

It was a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...(SIKE).

No what really happend was, that it was refered to me by a friend of mine. He had played the game at a relatives house or something (he was out in cali) and spent a good portion of his time mastering the game, when he came back he immediatly told me about the game. I was a bit skeptical at first, but bought it anyway, it was the best choice in my life(or one of the top few!).

Anyway three, no four years later, here i am.

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My intnse game playing back to 1991, hwen there were some war games. We had a small gang to do somehotseat togather. On 1993. we began to hear stories about a interesting game that you discover computer. Finally, One pal got it, and our gang gatherred and saw the icon of a funny settler. Here began more sleepless night. I played emperor from almost the beginning. For pretty long time, What I did was getting beated by AI with advanced units. Then I began to know the importance of changing Goverment, etc. At the leisure time, our ganags exchange the new tricks just learn and so on. The strategy of ICS+republic was 1st heard at that time. Without those gang-workshop my skills never be the same.
Then we began to have RR before 1000BC, Armor before AD. Kick AI's planx and wipe out a whole empire with ONE or two armor was the fun at that time. But we never had civnet. But I did tricked the save file, and found out the byte that indicate the color of human civ. But still difficult to make a real MP game.
Left my gang, since 1996.

 
I was introduced to it by a friend, played for an hour or two with NO CLUE as to what to do, until my friend showed me CHEAT MODE!hehehe.

Then I saw it on a shelf a year later, MGE, and had to have it! IT was love at first sight.

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My story begins in the days of high adventure. . . no, wait, that's someone else entirely. . . let me start over.
I was the son of a black sharecropper. . . hmm, that can't be right, I'm white as the driven snow. . .
Ok, I remember now. It was back in the good old early 1990's. I had just dropped out of college, and finally given up in despair on my Amiga, because even though it ran rings around the best PC on the market, CBM never spent a dime on advertising, and noone wrote software for their wonderful computer.
Despondent, I purchased a 386 from a friend at work, and started looking around for games. A buddy I role-played with supplied me with Lemmings, Prince of Persia, and some other lame crap. Around this time, I discovered that the Gold Box AD&D games had been ported to the PC from my venerable old C-64, so I snapped those up, and replayed them. Then I saw it.
The name on the cover was Sid Meier. 'That's the guy who did that cool Railroad Tycoon thing', I mused. 'Colonization, huh. OK, I'll give it a try.' While I was getting the hang of running a revolution, my buddy was learning the settler cheat for Civ 1. We shared information(and install discs), and the rest, as they say, is history.
 
My story:
In 1992, when I was 13, me and my brothers got an own 386DX-40. It had a few games on it, like Lemmings, Testdrive, and a boringly looking strategy game. I deleted that game to save space on the 100 MB harddrive.

Then, half a year later, 2 of my friends suddenly got very exited about a game they called Civilization. I scepticly tried it, after seeing it was that same old crap... I didn't understand much, I just fooled around at chefitan level, despotism, not knowing how to use resources, tax or wonders etc.

It didn't take long to get addicted, and soon I learned all the details... It must be the best game ever.

How many other games have those freaks like us, who keep playing it, over and over again, year after year, night after night?

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Civ was one the first good macintosh games and perhaps one of the first Mac games... Didn't have choice.
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I was condemned to become addicted, that's all.

But THE question is not how have we been caught in the Sid's trap but how can we get cured from addiction
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Anyone know?

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i for one don't want the cure...lol
just throw me civ III and crank up the
craving another notch...
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I got to know Sid Meier's genius creation when I first played Civ1 and Colonization back in 1995.
Since then, I am a Civ/Colonization Fan.
 
This is awesome... I've been reading through every story. Any more?

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I saw the game at my cousin's, and he said "Oh, this game is really boring", but I got hooked and said "Can I borrow this". "Yes, of course," he answered. And since that accident three months ago, I have been a Civilization fanatic (and one month ago I became a REAL CivFanatic)

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forever!!

And may this man <IMG SRC="http://www.vg.no/grafikk/frontbilder/1225.gif" border=0> recover!
 
Originally posted by GenghisK:
But THE question is not how have we been caught in the Sid's trap but how can we get cured from addiction <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/lol.gif" border=0> Anyone know?
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Hate to reply to myself, but I didn't explore this question before -
I don't think there is a cure. Someone suggested it might be a Wonder in CivIII - Cure for Civ Addiction.

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forever!!

And may this man <IMG SRC="http://www.vg.no/grafikk/frontbilder/1225.gif" border=0> recover!
 
Someone suggested it might be a Wonder in CivIII - Cure for Civ Addiction.
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try to guess who dit?
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Read the concerned post more carefully. I think it's somebody, a stupid person called Genghis K, I think.
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And the idea was quite appreciated, at least it seemed to.

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Originally posted by GenghisK:
Someone suggested it might be a Wonder in CivIII - Cure for Civ Addiction.
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try to guess who dit? <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/smile.gif" border=0>
Read the concerned post more carefully. I think it's somebody, a stupid person called Genghis K, I think. <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif" border=0> And the idea was quite appreciated, at least it seemed to.
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Oh well, sorry. Great idea, though!

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forever!!

And may this man <IMG SRC="http://www.vg.no/grafikk/frontbilder/1225.gif" border=0> recover!
 
Many years ago I played empire on my old Amstrad PC, in which you started out with a single base and a unit with which you explored and conquered a world. Recently I was working on some Linux problem and found freeciv for the linux community. Well one thing led to another and after downloading civnet (abandonware) from the Underdogs site (still working on getting the linux one working!) I scooted to my local EB and snagged a $12 copy of ToT (not really a huge mistake..
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but now I'm gonna grab that Civ2 jewlcase which the dude in the store was really pushing me to get (now I see why!) Which sageway's (sp) back to my original Empire days, this was the only game I think I spent consecutive hrs if not days. It also had hotseat and me and my friend would spend litrally all night sessions playing. Now I hope to rekindle those experiences (yikes! nearly 20 years later..) I found out that the game "Empire" that I played was also a board game and also a port of a PDP10/11 (very..very old computer) game called "Empire" which dates from around 1968 (now we're talking over 30 years!) I even have the code for that one in one of my dusty data banks somewhere (it's played in ascii graphics and I believe each move is output to a printer (!!). So the short of it is empire-->linux-->civ a round about way but as Dan Ackaroyd's character in Ghostbusters II said "Man! What a trip!"
Also, maybe this should also be posted in the "what will you be doing in 50 years" forum too! With proably 30 years in history under it's belt (only 20 from the 50 mark) and Civ3 coming out... yea! we'll still be making those Zulu's pay..
 
About 5 or 6 months before I got out of the army back in '94, a buddy of mine had civ 1 for his pc. I ended up buying a lot of beer in exchange for time with the game...lol

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[This message has been edited by gjts00 (edited April 09, 2001).]

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